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June 22, 2012

In Boston

Our few days in Boston were just about perfect (except for the extreme, near-100 degree heat on Wednesday).

Two Red Sox games (& two wins, including a 15-5 laugher!), some research at the Boston Public Library, seeing Amy, Jere (and Kim), and Joe Grav (and his girlfriend Amy, who provided the tickets on Tuesday!), meeting Matthew Kory (who writes at Over the Monster and Baseball Prospectus and happened to be visiting from Portland), and spending many hours catching up with our niece Cassie.

Plus we had a view of the back of the Monster Seats from our window at the Hotel Buckminster (where at least some of the 1919 World Series fix was discussed/planned by the White Sox players during a mid-September series with the Red Sox).

Allan, I'm sorry that I wasn't able to catch you and Laura while you were here.

I usually get about eight pairs of tickets each season from my ticket group and I usually know what games I will have before the season begins. If you plan to come again next season, let me know and either (a) I can provide you tickets for that game or (b) I can meet you at the game.

Even better, perhaps we can plan another JoS game and get the entire gang there.

We'd love to, but it's not easy. For starters, group sales start at 20 tickets, which was a high bar, given schedules, funds, etc.

Maybe for next year or the year after, we should pick a game, and everyone who can make it can go about getting their own tickets. We can meet up before and after the game - and we'd all be at the same game, although not sitting together. Decentralize the planning. It might work.

"We'd love to, but it's not easy. For starters, group sales start at 20 tickets, which was a high bar, given schedules, funds, etc.

Maybe for next year or the year after, we should pick a game, and everyone who can make it can go about getting their own tickets. We can meet up before and after the game - and we'd all be at the same game, although not sitting together. Decentralize the planning. It might work."

I will again offer up what I did for the first time: You can buy up to 10 tix in an order. You get a group of 10 upper bleacher at $12 each and however many more you need in the second order. Then you have a group of seats together so people have that option, but we also gather in one of the standing room areas with tables/ledge. For the seats, you could even control it so it's not one long row, so everyone's close together. On redsox.com, you can pick your exact seats now. If you didn't want to do a mass order, you tell people the section and row(s), and have people buy their own. Example: Look at the White Sox series next month. The top few upper bleacher sections are completely available. People could still be buying for it today and still be getting tix in the same spot as the rest of the group.

But the bonus is, we could use the $12 tickets to get in, and avoid the bleachers altogether AND be able to "mingle" in the third base deck or something. A better and lower view than the $75 seats of the last meet-up, for 12 bucks each, though you have to stand.